We FINALLY got a 3 day weekend to get away and go camping!! It's been sooo long since we went last which was Travis' dad's antelope hunt in September. It was sooo refreshing-perfect weather, gorgeous lake, lots of mini adventures and lots and lots of fish. :)
Eagle Valley Reservoir is in rural Nevada just 3 hours north of Vegas. We took off on a Friday morning, driving the whole way with an excited pooch on my lap. Spring Valley State Park has gorgeous rock formations and the lake lies next to huge rock walls and Travis' favorite sage and PJ hills. We decided to camp at the state park which has nice bathrooms and showers. We set up camp and headed down to the lake to fish.
Both of us got decked out in our float tubing gear and set out for the opposite side of the lake. We started at the overflow spill way end which kind of freaked me out because I felt like the wind was going to end up pushing us over the edge as well. After a long while of coaching, I got the hang of fly fishing again and caught a couple trout! One of the them was the biggest of all the trout we caught that weekend. Fun stuff! Travis of course was slamming them every other cast. Once the sun set behind the clouds it of course was too freezing to be sitting in the lake so we got out and decided to go on a mini hike.
Since Travis had spotted deer on a hill side, we set out in that direction. We found and came close to a couple herds and sent Lily chasing them around the mountain side. We hiked a long a muddy stream and barely found a spot to make it back out the other side since the brush got really dense. Being in so much mud, Lily was caked! By now it was 8pm and she HAD to be cleaned off. So the only solution was to drop her into the lake off the doc and make her swim back to shore. We felt so bad and she was soooo freaked out and freezing, but at least she was clean. Our campsite neighbors gave us some wood so we got to have a fire both nights. So we put her bed and blanket right by the fire and warmed her up, not to mention we had the big tent and heater so she was fine. Still, such abusive doggy parents, I know! :P
Saturday we slept in and fished the middle of the day. I caught a bunch more and Travis of course caught tons. There were a lot of people on the lake, but it was still really nice. I didn't fish as long so I let Lily out of the truck and she ran up and down the shore and got to swim around a little.
That afternoon and evening we went exploring and found a good spot to shoot the bow. Well, we thought it was a good spot but ended up loosing 2 arrows and damaging 2 others. Travis is a great shot practicing from super long ranges. I was his spotter for him and would glass his arrow locations on the target for him. We got in quite a bit of walking/hiking to retrieve the arrow from so far away.
That night we had a huge fire with all the extra logs we had leftover from the night before and ate dinner by the fire. As we were looking over our pictures on our camera from the day, Travis noticed that his pocket knife was missing. He searched all over camp and vaguely remembered hearing a "tink" noise somewhere when we were out retrieving arrows. So we got our flash lights and went back to the spot he shot his bow. We hiked all over trying to retrace our steps. Just as I was walking through an area that couldn't tell really where I was in comparison to the places we'd been during the day, I saw a long black rectangle in a pile of rocks. He was sooooo lucky that I found it! I guess the one he has, it's really hard to buy a duplicate or something. Eagle Valley Reservoir is in rural Nevada just 3 hours north of Vegas. We took off on a Friday morning, driving the whole way with an excited pooch on my lap. Spring Valley State Park has gorgeous rock formations and the lake lies next to huge rock walls and Travis' favorite sage and PJ hills. We decided to camp at the state park which has nice bathrooms and showers. We set up camp and headed down to the lake to fish.
Both of us got decked out in our float tubing gear and set out for the opposite side of the lake. We started at the overflow spill way end which kind of freaked me out because I felt like the wind was going to end up pushing us over the edge as well. After a long while of coaching, I got the hang of fly fishing again and caught a couple trout! One of the them was the biggest of all the trout we caught that weekend. Fun stuff! Travis of course was slamming them every other cast. Once the sun set behind the clouds it of course was too freezing to be sitting in the lake so we got out and decided to go on a mini hike.
Since Travis had spotted deer on a hill side, we set out in that direction. We found and came close to a couple herds and sent Lily chasing them around the mountain side. We hiked a long a muddy stream and barely found a spot to make it back out the other side since the brush got really dense. Being in so much mud, Lily was caked! By now it was 8pm and she HAD to be cleaned off. So the only solution was to drop her into the lake off the doc and make her swim back to shore. We felt so bad and she was soooo freaked out and freezing, but at least she was clean. Our campsite neighbors gave us some wood so we got to have a fire both nights. So we put her bed and blanket right by the fire and warmed her up, not to mention we had the big tent and heater so she was fine. Still, such abusive doggy parents, I know! :P
Saturday we slept in and fished the middle of the day. I caught a bunch more and Travis of course caught tons. There were a lot of people on the lake, but it was still really nice. I didn't fish as long so I let Lily out of the truck and she ran up and down the shore and got to swim around a little.
That afternoon and evening we went exploring and found a good spot to shoot the bow. Well, we thought it was a good spot but ended up loosing 2 arrows and damaging 2 others. Travis is a great shot practicing from super long ranges. I was his spotter for him and would glass his arrow locations on the target for him. We got in quite a bit of walking/hiking to retrieve the arrow from so far away.
The next day was more fishing for Travis while I sat on shore with Lily and dove into the Hunger Games novel. (not my favorite book, had mixed feelings about the whole thing, but still intriguing) He caught tons more fish and Lily had a blast just running around. She was a sleepy leepy all the way home. It was such a nice trip and so relaxing that I'm so ready to go back! Gotta take advantage of this weather while we can!
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Caroline, I love Lily's bed!
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